Summary: Savage cannibal punks attack a family in the desert. They murder the parents, rape the daughter and take her baby for their food pot. The survivors revert to their old primitive instincts and set out to gain revenge...

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on March 29, 2006 12:38 PM

This is another of these horror classics from the early 80's and you just have to sit through the whole movie to enjoy the mayhem.
The Carter Family are crossing the desert wastes of America heading for California when they are attacked by a group of savage cannibals . Mr Carter is crucified , filled with petrol and set on fire .
Mrs Carter is shot in the stomach and left for dead . Her daughter is raped and her baby taken for the savages food pot . For the rest of the Carter Family , it is now a battle of survival . Brilliantly done.

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Boasting an upgrade in production values, The Hills Have Eyesshould please new-generation horror fans without offending devotees of Wes Craven's original version from 1977. There's still something to be said for the gritty shock value of Craven's low-budget original, made at a time when horror had been relegated to the pop-cultural ghetto, mostly below the radar of major Hollywood studios. With the box-office resurgence of horror in the new millennium--and the genre's lucrative popularity among the all-important teen demographic--it's only fitting that French director Alexandre Aja should follow up his international hit High Tensionwith a similarly brutal American debut to boost his Hollywood street-cred. Working with cowriter Gregory Levasseur, Aja remains surprisingly faithful to Craven's original, beginning with a bickering family that crashes their truck and trailer in the remote desert of New Mexico (actually filmed in Morocco), where they are subsequently terrorized, brutalized, and murdered by a freakish family of psychopaths, mutated by the lingering radiation from 331 nuclear bomb tests that were carried out during the 1950s and '60s. After several killings are carried out in memorably grisly fashion, it's left to the survivors to outsmart their disfigured tormentors, who are blessed with horrendous make-up (especially Robert Joy as freak leader "Lizard") but never quite as unsettling as the original film's horror icon, Michael Berryman. In Aja's hands, this newfangled Hillsis all about savagery and de-evolution, reducing its characters to a state of pure, retaliatory terror. It's hardly satisfying in terms of storytelling (since there's hardly any story to tell), but as an exercise in sheer malevolence, it's undeniably effective.-- Jeff Shannon

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Release Date:	February 6, 2006
Runtime:	83 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	A B P 9027
Label:	Bay View
Keywords:	Eyes, Hills, Have, General, Vanilla, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult